The HTC One M9 is probably the less exciting of the two flagship announcements we got at MWC, but HTC's US president Jason Mackenzie says you're going to love what they announce on Wednesday March 18th. That's the same day T-Mobile plans to have an event in New York with the slogan "This one's a real piece of work." Related? Maybe.

Wednesday, March 18th. Be ready! Big surprise about the HTC One M9 in the US. You're going to love it! Never been easier to choose HTC One

There's no guarantee that T-Mobile's Wednesday event is going to feature the M9, but it would make sense. T-Mobile is expected to announce more "Uncarrier" moves and some special deal on HTC's new flagship could be part of that. HTC could certainly use a boost for the M9, which will be going up against the Samsung Galaxy S6 this spring.

If nothing else, we'll probably learn about M9 availability this week. The T-Mobile event starts at 12:30 PM ET, if indeed these two things are related.

Comments

Though the M9 didn't seem all that exciting to me, it's still a great phone. A great deal on it in cooperation with T-Mobile could be a nice boost for both companies.

jonathan3579

HTC is gonna need it after the S6/Edge announcement. I think it's safe to say we all hoped (and partly expected) something more.

Man of Steel ☑

May be a variant with Exynos 7420 chipset? That would be so cool... :D

jonathan3579

Cool. I see what you did there! ;)

Man of Steel ☑

LOL. I am a big fan of hTC and Robert Downey. :P

Daniel Walsh

Lol. The M8s is a joke...

Man of Steel ☑

Actually, both Galaxy S6 and One M9 are disappointing in one or the other way. :D

Daniel Walsh

Nah.

Man of Steel ☑

Why?

Daniel Walsh

People are only complaining about the S6 because of the non removable battery and no Micro SD slot. Also the battery is small, but let's wait and see in how it performs with the Exynos 7420. In order to get premium quality, the battery had to be non removable and most oems are beginning to follow that now. I don't know why Samsung decided to get rid of the SD Card Slot though. They could have easily added it.

jonathan3579

Early reviews are saying battery life is less than the S5 - not horrible and not great.

Daniel Walsh

That's not a good sign.

jonathan3579

It can't be any worse than this. :P

Daniel Walsh

It won't be.

Man of Steel ☑

You can't believe that completely because pre-production units were used for those tests. :D

P.S. Final products would show much better results. :P

Daniel Walsh

Those pre-production models are really close to the final thing and the final production models should reflect that.

Man of Steel ☑

Of course, Exynos 7420 is much better than SD 810. :D

Daniel Walsh

The Exynos 7420 is a beast of a processor.

Matthew Merrick

Really? Because the primary reasons I don't like the s6 are the glass back, and the fact they removed to waterproofing :( couldn't care less about the SD card, and lack of a Removable Battery is annoying but definitely not a real name

Jacob Long

I'm not a fan of the glass back either. I once owned an iPhone 4 and I know what glass-backed phones are like. They're full of fingerprints, that's what they're like.

Eisenhorn1976

Don't forget to mention that many users reported that after keeping their iPhone 4/4S units in cases, their devices developed small cracks in their glass backs. I fully expect rage threads with users complaining about their S6/S6 Edges developing cracked or broken glass backs.

Also, does anyone know if the home button will be metal and glass or if it'll still be some plastic thing?

Eisenhorn1976

They're copying Apple there too -- have you seen the prices? They're no longer selling the "best tech at the best price." The 128gb 6 Edge is over a thousand bucks. They're going to make a killing on their markup on internal storage.

Hmm very interested how T-Mobile may be involved. Maybe htc put down some doe and you get unlimited lte for a year with purchase..... Nah

Nathan J

"The HTC One M9 is probably the less exciting of the two flagship announcements we got at MWC"

Really? Two front-facing speakers, no hardware (pre-2010) or capacitive (pre-2012) buttons, and a memory card slot is less exciting than an iPhone running Android? Am I on Apple Police or Android Police? Can we please have a little more love for OEMs that try to be different from Apple... or at least a little less hate? Samsung will do alright without you kicking their competitors. Meanwhile, HTC's revenue is less than Samsung's marketing budget. Yet they're taking risks and not just taking the easy road, copying the competition.

Should all Android phones look like iPhones? Is that what y'all are saying? If it doesn't look like an iPhone, it's not exciting? I think the author's bio should perhaps be changed; where it says "and Android fan," it should maybe say "and iPhone fan."

(I don't even hate iPhone, I just thought I was on an Android blog.)

Andrew

Please, the S6 has both wireless charging and Samsung Pay with Loop technology, neither of which are possible on the M9 or any iPhone. The S6 is not just an iPhone running Android.

Nathan J

Who needs wireless charging when you have an all-day battery (the M8 has this, not sure about M9 but it's a safe bet, and a safer bet the S6 doesn't, with a smaller battery and a Quad HD screen) and 2A chargers are $5 shipped on Newegg. Just plug it in at night, no hurry, it's probably got at least 20%left.

And who cares about Samsung Pay? Real Android phones have Google Wallet and have had it for years.

And no, it's not an iPhone running Android. It's just a cheap knockoff. Also, Samsung phones use the worst radios. They will lose signal or drop a call before any other popular flagship phone.

Andrew

I might not 'need' wireless charging, but I do enjoy using it on my nightstand. I can use my phone in bed and then just drop it on top of the charger without looking for the cable in the dark.

I don't think wireless charging is generally a dealbreaker. However, a previous phone I destroyed the USB port on it and made it unchargeable by pulling it from the cable too fast. Obviously, something like this is still my fault, but it's still a problem I'd like to avoid in the future.

Lars Jeppesen

What about the Oled display on the s6? It seriously beats each and every other display out there.
Displays are important.

Vijay Yalamanchili

Like it or not, M9 was less exciting of the two announcements. I was really let down with the lack of design changes. S6 on the other hand was exciting but 2550 mAh battery with QHD screen and crappy looking skin might be a bummer..

Nathan J

Lack of design changes? Like how every Samsung still has an iPhone home button?

Every Android OEM that does business in the United States wants every two versions to be a big enough update to justify the update. In the land of two year contracts, the next year's model would have to be bought out of contract. So instead of making it worth that price bump, they instead appeal to owners of the generation before.

Vijay Yalamanchili

I am not a Samsung fan, you can bash them all you want :) I'm disappointed because this is the 3rd year with similar design. The M8 feels as big as a 5.5" phone. I know it has boom speakers and all but I feel HTC could have done something about it. Also the color options are terrible. Not everybody wants gold on their phone!

HTC M9 might be a great phone for a lot of people. I'm just saying a lot of people like me were not excited enough.

Nathan J

I don't have gold on my phone. I have the Gunmetal Grey M8, or as Verizon calls it, the "Metal Grey" version, because apparently "Gun" is a bad word. I don't like the color of gold at all. And doesn't Samsung have gold? Surely they must, because Apple does, and if Apple didn't pass gas, Samsung would die of suffocation.

You nailed my biggest complaint about HTC. The vanity bar being on the bottom. It should be on the top, contributing to, not taking away from the reach of the thumb.

RyanWhitwam

I can't even...

Nathan J

And therein lies the problem.

Matthew Fry

LOL. I hope it's an Intel-based HTC M9.

kenjab

HTC's announcement is at 9:00amPT / 12:00pmEST so it may not be related to T-Mobile after all....